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The FBI is said to be investigating the activities of former Trump campaign advisers Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Carter Page and Michael Flynn. Federal law enforcement authorities and bipartisan congressional investigators are looking into Russian meddling in the USA election and potential ties between Trump's campaign and Russia. (more...)

Canada is the largest exporter of oil to the US, at about 3.3 million barrels a day in 2016. It is also a good example of crony capitalism, Hartl claimed, in the sense that this pipeline, by its design, is not really going to help USA consumers and is not going to create that many jobs. (more...)

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump to use his upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping to bring an end to "unwarranted and unfair" retaliatory measures Beijing has taken against South Korea for hosting the U.S. (more...)

The White House says the real story is not about Russian Federation - it's about how Obama administration officials allegedly leaked and mishandled classified material about Americans. The White House has embraced a top Republican's assertion that information about Trump associates were improperly spread around the government in the final days of the Obama administration . (more...)

Day reached No. 1 after claiming victory at the 2015 PGA Championship, but was recently rocked by news of family illness that led to his withdrawal from the WGC-Dell Match Play. To be able to have people reach out to me and my team about the current situation we were going to was special to us. That's something that I feel like if I putt very well, I'm going to have a chance to win on Sunday. (more...)

With four rounds remaining, Brazil are 11 points clear of Argentina , who were last night shocked by Bolivia without the suspended Messi, and safely through to the finals in Russian Federation. This, combined with Peru's win over Uruguay , ensures they can finish no lower than fourth in South American qualifying, with four games to spare. (more...)

In 1999, President Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his affair with Monica Lewinsky and a sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones. The governing body of the MA city with a well-known progressive bent voted 7-1, with one abstention, to investigate whether Trump violated the emoluments clause in the Constitution with his foreign investments and properties. (more...)

It is then when the potential nuclear option could be invoked, which, Chris, sets up final confirmation vote for Neil Gorsuch on Friday. "Whoever says that is a stupid idiot", McCain told MSNBC. Independent Sen. Angus King says he will oppose President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee. The Senate is preparing to do away with the rule that requires 60 votes in the 100-member body for Supreme Court nominees. (more...)

Neeshan Balton, the chief executive of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, said that thousands of pages of police transcripts that had been declassified showed that that Kathrada had the kind of militancy that would make Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema seem tame. (more...)

The names of USA citizens are normally redacted, or blocked out, in intelligence reports under the federal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Last month White House lawyers discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of United States persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to The Trump Transition Team and Campaign. (more...)

A man in China has chose to marry a robot he built after months and months of pressure from his family to find a girlfriend and get married. Apparently Zheng had been severely disappointed in finding love and was exhausted of the pressures and nagging from his family. (more...)

BBC released the new Doctor Who trailer early on Monday in the United Kingdom, and though the vast majority of the aliens and planets had been glimpsed before, the Radio Times noticed a very brief shot of what looks like the Doctor getting ready to regenerate into his next incarnation. (more...)

North Korea reportedly fired the missile from Sinpho, South Hamgyong Province, the location of a North Korean submarine base and a key testing site for submarine-launched ballistic missiles. A senior U.S. White House official said Trump wanted to work with China and described the discussions over North Korea as a test for the U.S. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference that Japan absolutely cannot tolerate North Korea's repeated provocative actions. (more...)

But Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, dismissed the claim of Russian involvement in the killing as "absurd". Voronenkov's bodyguard was also wounded, but returned fire and hit the gunman. He renounced his Russian citizenship and became a Ukrainian citizen late a year ago. Voronenkov received excellent military and legal training, and reportedly had good relations with the Russian police, army, and intelligence services. (more...)

Some here hope that it will somehow stop the unofficial Chinese boycott of South Korea over the stationing of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery from the USA here, but that seems unlikely. "That is all I am telling you". But if he's got one, leaders across Asia are all ears. The Trump team has also talked tough on the South China Sea as well. (more...)

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a phone conversation Tuesday morning "where Erdogan said chemical weapons used against civilians in Idlib and those cruel attacks are not acceptable", Turkey's official news agency Anadolu reported . (more...)

Flynn's Justice Department filing last month raised questions when it revealed that Flynn's firm worked on behalf of a Turkish-owned company, Inovo BV, to improve U.S. He warned people to look towards Trump's statements, which he said were not "subtle". "This business is always hard and politics is always hard, but I'm used to that", Nunes said. (more...)

City streets soon filled with rushing water that crushed homes, pulled up trees from their roots and whisked away cars and trucks. The army said 254 people were killed, 400 people injured and 200 missing. Injured people receive medical attention after mudslides following heavy rains in Mocoa , Putumayo department, southern Colombia on April 2, 2017. (more...)

The OSC says that US government employees can express their opinions about partisan groups or candidates from their personal accounts , but with limitations - including that they cannot "refer to their official titles or positions while engaged in political activity at any time". (more...)

McCaskill is the first Democrat facing reelection next year in a state President Trump carried by double digits to come out against Gorsuch. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, have already announced their intentions to support Gorsuch. Schumer pointed to the treatment past year of Merrick Garland, Obama's Supreme Court nominee, who never got a hearing as McConnell led a Republican blockade. (more...)